Josh Calkins
Senior Frontend Developer at MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Inc.
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Calkins is a Senior Frontend Developer with a decade of experience building scalable, high-performance web applications across enterprise and client-facing products. He specializes in modern JavaScript stacks—React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node—and has led platform overhauls that scaled multi-tenant systems to hundreds of thousands of items and millions of daily visits. Josh is skilled at architecting reusable component libraries, improving developer experience with tooling like Storybook and custom bash scripts, and migrating APIs to serverless Lambdas for clearer microservices boundaries. He has a strong track record of improving performance and reliability through state-management optimizations (Zustand), AWS operations, and CI/CD/testing practices. Beyond shipping features, he mentors engineers and drives engineering standards that reduce bugs and accelerate delivery. Based in San Diego, he pairs product-focused thinking with hands-on implementation, often tackling both infra and UX challenges on the same project.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Economics, Computer Science, Economics, Computer Science at Montgomery County Community CollegeFull Stack Web Development, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development, Computer Software Engineering at Bloc
English
Github Skills (16)
d3js8
isomorphic7
svg7
charts6
react6
canvas5
visualization5
data-visualization3
typescript3
facial-recognition3
react-redux1
styled-components1
backend1
firebase1
ecommerce1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jcalkins89/prosopo
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
AI powered facial recognition, built with React and TypeScript
Contributions:47 commits, 14 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 month
reactai-poweredbuilt-with-reactrecognitionfacial
jcalkins89/bloc-jams
Apr 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:24 pushes, 28 branches in 4 months
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